Apollo Endosurgery today priced a stock offering worth nearly $21 million for its line of bariatric and gastrointestinal devices. Austin, Texas-based Apollo said it plans to float roughly 3.75 million shares at $5.50 apiece, for gross proceeds of $20.6 million. The offering also includes a 45-day option for underwriter Craig-Hallum Capital of another 562,055 shares, […]

EnteroMedics (NSDQ:ETRM) said today that it acquired BarioSurg and the gastric vest it developed to treat obesity, sending share prices surging in pre-market trading. The BarioSurg device is designed to be implanted via laparoscopy to wrap the stomach and emulate the effects of conventional bariatric surgery by temporarily reducing the stomach’s volume. St. Paul, Minn.-based […]

Automated robotic systems used to combat hospital-acquired infections topped the ECRI Institute’s "2015 Top 10 Hospital C-Suite Watch List," an annual report on technologies healthcare executives should look out for in the next year to 18 months.